It already exists. It's called the MBP 13" with M1.
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Apple Silicon M1 Chip in MacBook Air Outperforms High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro
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Intrinsity, not Intrinsic. And PA Semiconductor was probably the more important purchase
Thanks! Fixed it !
Huh. Well, I’d been planning to replace my 2015 15” MBP with the last gen Intel 16” to make sure I had Boot Camp and full support for my Steam Library for as long as possible, and to avoid jumping in on gen one. Now I’m having second thoughts about that approach.
Yes, though in sustained loads, I’m sure the Air would throttle. However, the 13” Pro should be able to sustain those speeds.
I think their port of tensorflow is only for application of ML, not for training ML. There are some threads on reddit about it. That is my annoyance about Mac: no way to train ML. I’m thinking of buying a desktop PC.
Yawn. 99.9% of people don't need anything faster than what was available 5 years ago. This is all fascinating from an academic perspective but means very little from a practical perspective. So I can land the space shuttle from a mac book air. Awesome. Will I? no.
Tired of this “fanless so it is not going to work” talk.
Does the iPad Pro have any fan? Does it work flawlessly? I think it does. People are still thinking with the “Intel” mind. It’s gone, get used to it. This is next gen.
I can’t wait for my base MacBook Air. I wanted to keep it at the base price exclusively and I will be enjoying it if this is the case especially after my 2019 MacBook Air. It stutters even when scrolling a web page...
Does the iPad Pro have any fan? Does it work flawlessly? I think it does. People are still thinking with the “Intel” mind. It’s gone, get used to it. This is next gen.
I can’t wait for my base MacBook Air. I wanted to keep it at the base price exclusively and I will be enjoying it if this is the case especially after my 2019 MacBook Air. It stutters even when scrolling a web page...
Someone doesn't get it.
I mean, Apple doesn’t even bundle a game controller. As a game console, the Mac is a miserable failure. /s
We now have phones that record 4K video. These kinds of speeds make it easy even for casual users to edit video, touch up photos, etc.
When does Apple start selling/partnering/(competing?) with AWS to shove these in a cloud server?
While I'm really wanting to believe the hype, I'm going to wait for real world workflows to be tested to see how performance really is.
A bench mark tool created to run native under ASIC code, showing the performance of a processor chip, has nothing to do with real world software running threw Rosetta 2 under Big Sur. Just because you got a 16 cylinder 1000 horse power engine in a car, but the transmission is still design for a 6 cylinder car does not mean the car is going to run faster. Now put in a transmission design to run with a 16 cylinder motor, then you got the speed and the power. Software code will need to be rewritten to work with this new chip and OS.
And we have not seen the graphics performance yet, like other have said.
Will Apple get there, yes but a bench mark tool results, does not show real results with a Mac Application under Rosetta II. IOS Applications should run very well because these apps have been written for the ASIC A processors.
And we have not seen the graphics performance yet, like other have said.
Will Apple get there, yes but a bench mark tool results, does not show real results with a Mac Application under Rosetta II. IOS Applications should run very well because these apps have been written for the ASIC A processors.
Right now Parallels is working on code to run VMs on this architecture. https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-apple-silicon-mac/
I interviewed with Dobberpuhl twice.
The first time was in 1991 or so. I remember very little about it, but I got the general impression it didn’t go well, and I did not get the job. Honestly I cannot even remember *where* the interview happened, though it must have been in Massachusetts for the Alpha team, and I do vaguely remember talking about their emulation technology (they had a way to run x86 and SPARC code on alpha).
Around 1995 I interviewed again, this time in Palo Alto for the strongarm team. I remember that one a bit better. I recall being asked to design a RAM cell, and nailing it. But then it was time for DobberpuhL to talk to me. And he starts with “so I remember you from 4 years ago. That didn’t go well. Let’s hope you did better today. Why did you get a Ph.D, anyway? That was dumb.”
Six months later I was at Exponential Technology interviewing one of the guys who interviewed me at DEC. I think we made him an offer. Can’t recall if DEC made me an offer, though I would bet they did not. If they had I wouldn’t have taken it, anyway, because the Exponential job was such a perfect match for my technical experience (i had been designing bipolar CPUs for 4 years, which was super unusual, and the folks at Exponential had actually been monitoring our research to see what we were up to since they were also doing bicmos).
At AMD I worked with a half dozen or so folks from the Alpha team. They were all incredibly smart (and they still are
Imagine what the M1 16 inch MacBook Pro is gonna be like, heck, image the 3rd generation M3 MacBook Pro 16 inch?
This is ridiculous. I'm blown away by that performance jump. Compare that to this early 2020 base model.
Looking good, but Apple is now blurring the lines more between an "air" and a "pro" . I wound even say much more than before. it becomes even more confusing..
Now users have to really think before purchase just because of power.
My first indication a fan-less mac would be to max it out and run Handbrake on it for few hours. See if i can get that litle bugger to get hot.
Now users have to really think before purchase just because of power.
My first indication a fan-less mac would be to max it out and run Handbrake on it for few hours. See if i can get that litle bugger to get hot.
Some more trivia. They were original called EVSX, which stood for “everything else sucks.” And they formed in our Austin office as Exponential Technology was going out of business.
I normally don't part take in 1st gen Apple products (or other company's) but this time I'm antsy. I don't know if I will be able to stand on the sideline. I want one of these babies with the M1 chip. I skipped 1st gen iPhone, AirPods, Apple Watch.
If the benchmarks are so amazing and blows Intel out of the water, why didn't Apple do direct benchmarks against specific intel chips in its keynote as it has done traditionally?
Why put meaningless "2x", "3x", "4x" stuff that can easily be disregarded as empty marketing?
Bring back Steve Job's Photoshop benchmarks or some real world meaningful test back to keynotes.
Why put meaningless "2x", "3x", "4x" stuff that can easily be disregarded as empty marketing?
Bring back Steve Job's Photoshop benchmarks or some real world meaningful test back to keynotes.
